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2016-12-09T22:00:40.000000Z
Jolyon Maugham QC to go through Irish courts with issue of whether Brexit can be reversed after article 50 is triggeredIrish courts are to be asked to intervene in the UK’s legally complex Brexit process in a new appeal aimed at reaching the European court of justice in Luxembourg.The application, w...

2016-12-09T20:38:15.000000Z
Scotland’s first minister and US president-elect said to have discussed their nations’ longstanding relationshipDonald Trump and Nicola Sturgeon have spoken for the first time since the US election. The president-elect called Scotland’s first minister on Friday for what aides described as “a brief i...

2016-12-09T20:35:29.000000Z
Scotland Yard say witnesses are already coming forward but no arrests have been madeA 21-year-old man has died after being shot on a busy street in London, police said.The victim was shot by a lone gunman as he walked down the road in Kilburn, north-west London, on Thursday evening, Scotland Yard sa...

2016-12-09T19:38:04.000000Z
Share price jumps 30% as US media company reaches agreement on deal to create UK’s most powerful media groupRupert Murdoch swooped in with an £11.2bn offer to take full control of the satellite broadcaster Sky, five years after he was forced to abandon a similar deal amid public revulsion over the p...

2016-12-09T19:23:54.000000Z
Former party leader ‘having a great time’ not having to deal with people ‘who use me as a vehicle for their own self-promotion’Nigel Farage has said he is relieved to no longer be Ukip leader because it had meant “having to deal with low-grade people every day”, in an interview where he said his £85...

2016-12-09T19:10:25.000000Z
The benefit sanctions system is a damaging, expensive failure. Churches, as well as charities, see daily the human cost of this failure in people left without enough money to buy the very basics of life. The recent National Audit Office report has now shown that taxpayers also bear a financial cost ...

2016-12-09T19:10:02.000000Z
After a week of intense scrutiny of Brexit arrangements, this Saturday’s observance of Human Rights Day provides a welcome pause to reflect on the role the UK should play on the international stage. This is especially important when we consider how global businesses based in the UK or listed on the ...

2016-12-09T18:58:29.000000Z
MP was invited to private meeting about Brexit strategy then disinvited after she hit out at Theresa May’s cowhide legwearNicky Morgan, the former education secretary, has been dropped from a list of moderate Conservative MPs who are set for a private meeting with the prime minister next Wednesday, ...